Cornerstone Building Brands reviews about "upper management"

Awful culture built by the C Suite No work life balance Upper management is volatile and emotional

Basically everything else. Upper management cares only about their position and pleasing the board, and the board only cares about making money. I understand it’s a business; but without people, you don’t earn money .

Revolving door for mid and upper management. Company has had 5 CEO’s in 7 years and 5 Presidents over commercial buildings. Company is consistent in being inconsistent in evolving and moving into the 21 century in technology. Programs are outdated and never get replaced, since the people in charge seem to leave before it can be implemented. No bonus structure and no clear path for growth or upward mobility. As soon as some traction starts to help move upward in your role that person in charge leaves and the process starts again. No consistency in how you move upward, it’s in constant revision. Empty promise of change, the company feels like a lost teenager trying to “find itself “ after 3-4 years since the merger. Processes keep getting harder and more tedious, just to be taped together with more procedures as the manager leaves. High burnout and next man up mentality with no reward for your efforts until 2-3 years later. Company had highest revenue ever in a quarter and 15$ Gift Cards for Uber Eats was the reward. For a 5B company this all you get. Each quarter parts of the company keep getting sold off, nobody knows what company it wants to be. Buildings? Components? Everything is for bottom dollar and sold to you in corp speech as “change for the best”. Company is in constant change except nothing changes for the employees. Just the people at the top and then they leave and it all starts again. The culture is non existent, No big Christmas parties, work gathering or any moral boosting. They will say they used to provide this stuff years ago but a few bad apples ruined it for everyone. (How about you throw out the bad apples?) Instead the whole company gets punished. Everything is assumed to be done because employees will take advantage of something, (pessimistic) never seeing the positive. As for the job role, it seems anytime management doesn’t want to invest in Engineering/ Drafting to help get them trained it becomes a new task for sales to perform. Our job of processing orders has gone from average time of 15 minutes to 1 to 2 hours in the span of 4 years. Most jobs tend to get easier as you gain experience, this role has the luxury of doing the opposite. Mid level managers are also so overwhelmed with meetings that they never have the time to help evolve the employees underneath them.

- Although upper management listens, due to market they may not be able to respond the way you would hope - Company can change policies/rules on a whim - Moving extremely fast with growth which can cause communication and operation issues

- Company restructuring does not seem to benefit smaller teams, but management level or above. At the end of the day, the teams doing sales, estimating, and install are making the money, and instead it seems like money is being spent on upper level management that do not have a grip on day to day operations. - Do not give competitive offers until someone quits. - Previously had many women in leadership positions and that has taken a turn in the last year or so. Becoming less inclusive in this sense, especially considering there are many women that work in both production and in an office setting.

Lack of trust, toxic culture, lack basic common sense, do not understand team building, are not open to transparency. Here is a better understanding- I had a Sales Training at our corporate office and the 3rd party sales instructor had us do personality testing. My manager at the time bragged about being diplomatic. Stating to the audience -"Yeah that's right that is me!" The instructor said - "Class, he just stated in human terms that he would be nice to your face AND stab you in the back when you leave". My manager stated - "Yep that is me!" All upper management in the room and are just as stupid / dumb as the person that made a fool of himself. Can you see what they lack? LEADERSHIP! Oh and there market share has declined 15% in two years with no idea HOW to improve BUT it isn't there fault it has to be the front line workers. Sales, Customer Service, Pricing, Warranty, and the plant workers are all workers not respected and are in constant motion with new workers coming in. Is that really a culture for respected people?

Upper management will not defend the employees when harassed by deparrtment supervisors.

Upper management does t value you unless you’re high up